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Show H MONEY VALUES. B At tho present tl.m-tiiu tux rjucdlcn B nnd tho paying ol.-iiliiii. a lot'll.wis B i-nuslnc quite mi finolloii lit our coin- B niunlty. The people feci Hint thur BH burdens nro moro limn tlioy enn tiuar, B under, the conditions Hint cxiet flt J present. Tlioro tiro many who cannot fully 1111- B tlerstnnd how It Is tlmt prices clmngo so H much in regard to commodities ol which I B thoyhnvato dispose. Nor how it in H Hint n dollar Is not nlwnys worth a H dollar, neither moro or less. A dollar It B Is true is nlwnys n dollar, but its pur- H chasing power is governed by the H nmount in circulation and prices ilse B and fnll according to Hint quantity. H If itwero possible, (or our government B; to dotiblo the quantity of money in the K nnllon without doubling other things B prices would be t Icons high, Hint la H (other things being equal; tho farmer B would get duu bio Hie nmount for the ' farm product. Thus tho moro money B thero is in circulation tho better it is for B thosowho linvo commodities to. sell. B Tho Ices money there is in circulation B tn0 moro of l'loso commodities it takes B to pay old debts and taxes. This being B tho enso tho farmer tu-day is sufTciiug B from tho stringency of money in such n B mnnncr Hint lie Uiir not felt for years B uid perhnps never before, If ho owes n B ebt it takes nt least one third moro ol H m product to pay Hint debt nov than il B ' ' lnsl 'enr ll ',0 ,ust vcftr borrowed B a. und lias to pay the Interest on that H m cy now it will tnko tliu ono third B ln0 to p.iylt, at the sntno rnto of In- H lert . But it may be, and most lllcclv B h, h m to pay moro Interest on that B mo,lt ""' " M ln's NvorkB ul,on llIln '" B ntwo id manner for tho interest Is B liighcr alio his product is lower. Thus. T mains thi sjinc tho commodity changes B fuvnluoverv mchdownn(tnl wlillo tho B purchasing pot er of thu dnllar goes up- H wnrds. Forth!.' reason tho producer H feels Iho burr en of tnxnllan more B pewrly now than ie did lust year. Tor H this reason tho ofh rs who he helped to B elect to oillco ehoul datcn.to his cry for ' it is a Jimt ono wlict, c noks to luno his burden inudo lighter. Hut in two innuy citBcj his cry is not h lied, it is citt aside and ho is told h must pay his j taxes, or linto ills iiouio eold and his t children turned Into tho street. |